ThanCue

Application no longer supported or developed

For the music

Cue software designed by an Abba fan and someone who isn't as keen on Abba.

Development Team

This software is being developed jointly by Mike Croall and Ryan Collins.

Usage

Linux

First, install the required dependencies:

sudo apt-get install vlc

Now, download the jar file. In terminal:

java -jar /path/to/dev.jar

Make the jar executable...

chmod +x /path/to/dev.jar

and simply double click it!

ThanCue is developed on Ubuntu, and extensively tested for Ubuntu. Let us know if something doesn't work on your distro, and feel free to send a pull request to fix the issue!

macOS (or MAC OS X as it used to be known)

With MacOS, first ensure you have a JVM installed, along with the latest edition of VLC.

The VLC app MUST be located in the Applications folder on the mac, otherwise ThanCue won't be able to play anything.

Now download the JAR package from our repo. As we are currently an 'unidentified developer', one might have to go into System Preferences and allow the app to run. This is something that we will fix at a later date.

ThanCue for trying out our wonderful program; it's still in development but we hope you like it!

Versioning Script

To use the script to change release id and name, open a terminal in the main repo directory. Make sure the script is executable:

chmod +x cv.sh

Run the script:

./cv.sh MyNewVersionNameNoSpaces VersionIdAsAnInteger

and check your files updated!

Planned Features

Audio Cues

Display duration, description, elapsed time, and remaining time **(Mike)
Set volume, pitch, fade in and fade out effects
Set start and end positions in a given track (avoids opening it in some sound editing software)
Built in stopwatch and clock for timing cues/show operation (more for Show Mode)
Hotkeys for each cue (somewhat implemented, but need to add key combos/actual checking to avoid overwriting important keys)
EQ
MIDI control
Loops
Change sound card playback (for each cue)
Mac Voice Cue (using the say command)
More powerful VLC interface (allowing all the things above, and more!)

Video Cues

ASCII Output (yes, VLC does allow this!)
Video effects
Same type of things for audio, but for video as well

Other

Updates (partially implemented, but this needs a partial rewrite)
Ability to Undo and Redo thing **(Ryan)
Check for VLC on installation
Mac support
Make the program itself be relatively lightweight when playing many cues!
Cue numbers on the go button
Pausing of cues, and ability to go back to a previous cue (both previous, as well as any cue through a goto cue button)

Features implemented

A larger Go Button
Cue Numbering (useful for sound cues on a script)
VLC support
JavaFX rewrite
File saving (loading sort of works as well, but sound cue paths don't yet...)
Cue reordering
Basic show mode
Drag n drop cue creation
Voice Cues using Espeak
Add custom cue support (using Bash scripts). (needs custom GUI)

Problems that need addressing

Mac doesn't appear to update well. Fix this, as it's due to our addition to UpdateFX (that I need to clean up) ** Ryan
Generally clean up the code, as it's terrible in some cases (particularly drag and drop)
When working with files, sometimes one gets a 'phantom cue' which you can't play, but also can't touch at all. What's causing this?

** denotes a task actively being worked on. The name in brackets is the person working on it.

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